A fabulous article by Benedict Carey on the power of telling the stories of our lives:

"Every American may be working on a screenplay, but we are also continuallyupdating a treatment of our own life — and the way in which we visualize each scenenot only shapes how we think about ourselves, but how we behave, new studies find.By better understanding how life stories are built, this work suggests, people may beable to alter their own narrative, in small ways and perhaps large ones."

For the full article:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/health/psychology/22narr.html?8dpc&pagewanted=all&_r=1&